“Emma, I just wanted to let you know that I think you’re all the way beautiful,” Jim begins the video. “Not just pretty, but, you know, smart and kindhearted. And if I were a lot younger, I would marry you, and we would have chubby little freckled-faced kids.”

We’d laugh all day long and go camping and play Yahtzee and tell ghost stories by the fire — and the sex….” he says with a sigh.

“Every day for the rest of your life, you would thank God that I was the appropriate age for you. But I’m not. I’m 49,” Jim explains. “I have lines on my face, sometimes a little gray in my beard, and it takes me a little longer to pee than it used to. Those are the only discernible signs of aging that I can find so far.”

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know how I felt. You’re pretty special, and I wish you continued success and artistic fulfillment. But most of all, I wish you love and contentment. That’s all.”